Schools With Many Poor Families Get More Per Kid In Michigan, Not Less

Activist calling for illegal teacher strikes still makes claim

Tom Gantert | November 18, 2019

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Look For The Union Label On Legal Pot Shops?

State marijuana regulators propose unauthorized union privilege as condition of licenure

Dawson Bell | November 16, 2019

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Teachers Filing Union Unfair Labor Complaint Appear To Be Doing Well

Average pay at their Macomb district $79k; $100k+ not uncommon with optional duties

Tom Gantert | November 15, 2019

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Local School Union Claims Unfair Labor Practice, Cites Cuts That Weren’t

Teachers union says its members lost money, but don’t blame state taxpayers

Tom Gantert | November 14, 2019

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Tlaib Against Corporate Welfare Except When She Votes For It

In Michigan House she voted ‘yes’ on giving $1.031 billion to corporations

Tom Gantert | November 13, 2019

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Targeted Tax Preferences are Unfair

Entrepreneurs drive employment and prosperity

James M. Hohman | November 12, 2019

Entrepreneurs drive employment and prosperity

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What You Really Need to Know about Michigan Charter Schools

MLive errs in comparison of academic performance

Ben DeGrow | November 12, 2019

MLive errs in comparison of academic performance

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College Instructors Not Getting Rich, But Downtrodden A Stretch

$69k community college instructor, union president laments poor pay in newspaper essay

Tom Gantert | November 12, 2019

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Teacher Shortage? For Physics Maybe, But Not Phys-Ed

Union pay restrictions prevent schools from filling some slots

Tom Gantert | November 11, 2019

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Detroit Schools Fiscal Decline Began Before Emergency Manager

Media narrative blames school district’s deficits on state, ignore its previous history

Tom Gantert | November 9, 2019

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Detroit Schools Enroll More Low Income Students, Get More Money

Despite richer tax base, Grosse Pointe schools get less per student than Detroit

Tom Gantert | November 8, 2019

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Michigan’s Not Good For Wind Power, So Consumers Energy Customers Will Pay More

Under 2016 state regulation rewrite, electric utility monopoly makes money either way

Tom Gantert | November 7, 2019

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Conflict Of Interest: Officials With Turbine Tower Leases Approve Wind Development

‘First you harvest the (local) officials, then you can harvest the wind’

Dawson Bell | November 5, 2019

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Olympic Pool Holds 12 Times Annual Road Runoff Saved By $475K Great Lakes Grant

Total Great Lakes Restoration Initiative spending at $300 million a year

Tom Gantert | November 5, 2019

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The Bipartisan State Budget

Budgets generate a lot of conflict, but not a lot of partisan spending

James M. Hohman | November 4, 2019

Budgets generate a lot of conflict, but not a lot of partisan spending

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Taxpayers Pay $50 Million For State Police Double-Dipping Program Since 2015

Incentives let active officers also receive pensions during last six years on the job

Sandy Malone | November 4, 2019

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EPA Gives Over $6M For Environmental Justice Activism

Great Lakes program will give Wisconsin tribe $80k more

Tom Gantert | November 2, 2019

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Mission Creep: Money Touted As Protecting Lakes Goes To ‘Environmental Justice’

Wild rice beds, turtles, rare plants also get money sold as protecting Great Lakes

Tom Gantert | November 1, 2019

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Bill Would Allow Banks To Offer Secretary Of State Services

Stories of long wait times prompt effort to have banks renew licenses and car registrations

Tom Gantert | October 30, 2019

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Large Hospitals Want State Monopoly On New Cancer Treatment

And a state commission will give it to them unless legislature acts

Dawson Bell | October 30, 2019

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